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hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 9:43 AM

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👋 happy to help

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 9:43 AM

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Thanks!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 9:44 AM

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are you trying to achieve something like a metered subscription?

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 9:44 AM

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Metered subscription along with a flat fee on a monthly basis!

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Which should be billed at the end of the month!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 9:46 AM

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yes sure

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it's possible

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 9:47 AM

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And I need to charge customer for an non-refundable one-time deposit amount!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 9:47 AM

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that's also possible

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let me guide you through that all of that

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first you need to create a product with a Volume Pricing model

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you could do that from your dashboard by visiting https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/products/create

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wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 9:48 AM

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Okay, then?!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 9:49 AM

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in the price information section, choose either Graduated pricing or volume pricing

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then when you create a new subscription you would use that price id, and use the https://stripe.com/docs/api/subscriptions/create#create_subscription-add_invoice_items add_invoice_items to pass the one-time fee

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wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 9:52 AM

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But I want to charge all at the end of the month!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 9:53 AM

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the one-time fee would be on your first invoice

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the flat fee and the metered usage would be paid at the end of the billing period

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 9:55 AM

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Okay, but how can I pass the number of quantity and how can I specify to bill this at the end of billing period?!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 9:56 AM

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I guess it's better to start with this guide https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/metered

Metered billing with Elements

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this would give you a more in depth quickstart

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to answer your question though it's in this section https://stripe.com/docs/billing/subscriptions/metered#report-usage

Metered billing with Elements

Learn how to charge customers based on how much they use your product or service. For example, a service could charge customers based on the number of API calls they make or the amount of data they consume.

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 9:59 AM

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hard hill to answer your question though it's in this section https://stripe.com/docs/bill...

What is the timestamp here?!

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 10:01 AM

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hard hill

Can you explain about these columns?!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 10:02 AM

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wicked surge What is the timestamp here?!

it's the timestamp of when the usage record was updated

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 10:02 AM

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hard hill it's the timestamp of when the usage record was updated

Understood!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 10:02 AM

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in other words The timestamp when this usage occurred.

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https://stripe.com/docs/api/usage_records/object#usage_record_object-timestamp

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hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 10:03 AM

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wicked surge Can you explain about these columns?!

depending on your pricing model the columns would be different

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to read more about that, I would suggest going through this doc https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models

Pricing models for recurring billing

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wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 10:08 AM

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hard hill

Sorry, but I did not understand what is
Rows : "FOR THE FIRST" and "FOR THE SECOND" mean
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Columns : "FIRST UNIT", "LAST UNIT", "PER UNIT" & "FLAT FEE" mean and I do not understand what values to pass.
If possible, can you use an example which tells how to fill values for the above?!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 10:08 AM

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oh sure

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e.g you could say for the first 10 units you would charge 10bucks per unit with a flat fee of 5eur
after that for the units between 11 and 50 you would charge 9bucks per unit with a flat fee of 4eur etc....

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on the same doc I sent you there is an example if you want https://stripe.com/docs/products-prices/pricing-models#model-usage-based-pricing-on-stripe

Pricing models for recurring billing

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wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 10:22 AM

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hard hill on the same doc I sent you there is an example if you want https://stripe.com/do...

I do not have any tiered requirement!

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There's only one constant unit price for the metered usage and at the billing end it should have a simple multiplication with quantity!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 10:26 AM

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in that case you'd have to include two prices, one as a standard pricing for the metered quantity and another standard pricing for the flat fee

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and since it is metered it will automatically be postpaid

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 10:27 AM

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Can you access my test account and validate what ever I've done means the same you mentioned?!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 10:28 AM

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have you created a subscription yet? could you please share its id?

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 10:28 AM

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I've not created any subscription, just created product and prices!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 10:29 AM

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ok could you please share the product id?

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or the price id

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either one would be fine

wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 10:29 AM

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Product ID : prod_LtRfXXvznyslfN

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My situation is :
When a user comes to my website, he'll be given a free trail of a month and then he'll be charged with a one-time payment of $1500, next he'll be charged a monthly fee of $500, and then according to his usage he'll be billed metered with a unit price of $0.25!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 10:38 AM

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sorry for the delay I was still looking at your product

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yes now you have to create a subscription and pass both items as line_items and the first time fee as add_invoice_items

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you could really benefit from test_clocks (https://stripe.com/docs/billing/testing/test-clocks) to test your subscription and how your invoices are being generated

Test your integration with test clocks

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wicked surge Jun 20, 2022, 10:44 AM

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I'll verify, thanks!

hard hill Jun 20, 2022, 10:45 AM

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let me know if you need any more help

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